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Streaming films top theatrical in diversity | Los Angeles Times

A new study shows that there is one place in Hollywood where diversity efforts have been successful — streaming films. Released Wednesday, Part 2 of UCLA’s 2025 Hollywood Diversity Report has found that the proportion of women and people of color working in key entertainment jobs has increased since the previous edition of the annual study. The report also found that a majority of the top 20 streaming-only films released in 2024 featured diverse casts. (UCLA’s Ana-Christina Ramón and Jade Abston were quoted. Also: TheWrap.)

Economy will contract due to immigration raids | Los Angeles Times

A new report by the UCLA Anderson forecast predicts that the state’s economy is likely to contract later this year due to fallout from global tariffs and immigration raids in Los Angeles and other cities that have rattled key sectors, including construction, hospitality and agriculture. (UCLA’s Jerry Nickelsburg was quoted. Also: Fresno Bee and LAist 89.3-FM.)

Israel and Iran at war | KTLA-TV

“We’re in unprecedented times right now, although the contract between Iran and Israel has seemingly been in the shadows for decades. In the 1990s, the two countries were enemies and antagonists, but it was in the 2000s where Iran’s nuclear enrichment program just became highly scrutinized by the United States and Europe,” said UCLA’s Kevan Harris (approx. 1:10 mark. Harris was also interviewed by LAist 89.3-FM’s “AirTalk.” Also: UCLA’s Benjamin Radd was interviewed by KCRW 89.9-FM’s “Press Play.” – approx. 1:30 mark and FOX’s “LiveNow.”)

Metro scrambles for Olympics bus funding | Los Angeles Times

“There’s a mountain to be moved, and if you move it one year, it’s a lot harder than in three years,” said Juan Matute, deputy director of UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies. “The buses are hard enough to get, but all of these policy and regulatory changes may be hard as well.”

Latino Republicans struggling with deportation policies | ABC News

According to exit polls, 46% of Hispanic and Latino voters voted for Trump in 2024 — an improvement compared to his 2020 run, when he got 32% of Hispanic and Latino votes. Matt Barreto, a political scientist at the University of California Los Angeles and a founder of BSP Research, a Democratic-aligned polling firm, told ABC News that this was largely due to economic concerns: “Voters just felt that Trump might provide better economic opportunities.”

Texas leading psychedelic research for addiction | San Francisco Chronicle

“Psychedelics have inherent potential to be of great value to people for whom standard treatments often prove ineffectual,” said Charles Grob, a professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at the UCLA School of Medicine. “But investigators have to do their due diligence to optimize safety parameters.”

Trump ‘suspends’ raids on key industries | La Opinión

Victor Narro, a professor of labor studies at UCLA, said the decision to back down on arrests of farmworkers and hotel and restaurant workers was due to the fact that “the administration was aware of the complaints it had received from companies and billionaires.” (Translated from Spanish.)

Judge blocks passport policy targeting transgender people | Axios

About 1.3 million U.S. adults identify as transgender or gender-nonconforming, and as many as 5 million Americans may be intersex, according to a January brief from the Williams Institute, a UCLA Law School think tank that researches sexual orientation and gender identity.